Comet Holmes: An Overview

It was a little while ago now that Comet Holmes first came into our sights in Perseus. It flared from magnitude 17 to 2.8 in only two days and has since been picked up by many amateur and professionals alike, including a very recent Hubble press release.

So here is a collection of my favourite images of the Comet as it now begins to fade. We’ll begin with Sky

I'm Robert Simpson and I work at Google in London. I am the creator of <a href="http://dotastronomy.com">.Astronomy</a>. I am astrophysicist formerly of the <a href="http://zooniverse.org">Zooniverse</a> at the University of Oxford.